She would be bellowing over the fact they cast an American as her.

Yay someone else read Red Wing!  I thought it was beautiful.

Between Spitting Image and Raymond Briggs' 'The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman', she was the best thing to happen to British satire since Gilray.

No-one was ever going to like this.

Two "F" marks in one week!   Truly these are the Last Days.

It's the look on Sayid's face, listening and no doubt thinking of Nadia, that always gets me.

I don't think anybody with even just a mote of regret in their life can watch this episode without it cutting deep.

The rich man's D.

It will dwarf the success of LOTR.

"The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman" messed me up big-time as a kid.  There's some vitriol in the ink right there.

Ask Donald Pleasance in "Escape from New York".

You'll never get the biopic job with that attitude.

If nothing else "U Can't Touch This" introduced me to "Superfreak" and Rick James, just the thing to kickstart one's adolescence. 

I was going to say exactly the same thing.  What's Hammer without the baggy pants?

Interesting note on women's costume of the period: you could deliver a opening address to a jury in the time it took to get dressed.

I'm trying "you're awake, I'm drunk" first chance I get.

Manny's great speech reminded me of a joke popular in Czarist Russia, one train passenger would ask "Are you from Odessa?" and another would reply "Why, have you had something stolen?".

Depends of your level of petulance.

My only sadness is that we won't be seeing that beautiful, peaceful beach house of his again.

"Winged Victory of the Sullen" is what I shall name my Culture starship.